Letters: Philosophy for any failing enterprise

I thoroughly agree with John Florez's column on Aug. 10 ("Make the education elephant dance"). He said if we want to make the right changes in our educational system, we should get answers from the students, parents and tax payers, not the so called professionals who have brought us to our current predicament.

This same philosophy could also be used for the Post Office and any failing enterprise. IBM made a complete turn-around in their business focus when they listened to the brightest minds in their own company. Straight thinking individuals who have no other motive than to solve current problems would readily agree that unions are destroying our cities and states, the post office and our educational system because their highest priority is to win contracts with special rights and privileges for their members over doing what is in the best interest of the businesses or organizations they serve.

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I fail to understand why, in an era in which unions are at their weakest in
anyone's memory, we keep getting these letters.

If unions are
the source of all that is wrong in America, what about the 1950s-1970s when
unions were at their
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7:52 a.m. Aug. 19, 2013

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Roland Kayser

Cottonwood Heights, UT

Let's just take the post office. The biggest reason the post office is in
trouble is because congress required them to pre-fund their retirement program
for the next seventy-five years. No private business would think of doing this,
because
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